Research published in Pediatric magazine tracked 944 low-income parent-toddler pairs from the ages of one-to-five, asking parents about sleeping arrangements, and testing the tots along the way. After analyzing the results, it was found that bed-sharing didn’t result in any behavioral or cognitive problems in the youngsters.

However, this doesn’t give parents the green light to sleep with children who are less than a year old. Previous studies have linked bed-sharing during infancy to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).